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ReviewiScience2026

Undercooled liquid metal particles as gateway to low-temperature processing and non-equilibrium dynamics.

Andrew Martin, Jordan Peralta, Martin Thuo

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Review in iScience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Andrew MartinDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, 911 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Jordan PeraltaDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, 911 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Martin ThuoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, 911 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The continuous need to overcome thermal and miniaturization challenges in the fabrication of integrated circuits calls for novel alternative pathways to device and interconnect manufacturing. Efforts to achieve this goal, however, have been challenging due to limitations of the traditional equilibrium-based (Gibbsian) view of metal processing. This perspective demonstrates the application of metastable-metal processing as a platform for low-temperature and heatless solders with their subsequent effects on interconnect formation. In the process of realizing the solder, new understanding of non-equilibrium thermodynamics has emerged primarily around the solidification of deeply undercooled metals. This has led to resolution of the Kauzmann paradox (entropy catastrophe) through expansion of associated phase space to capture the contribution of tensions that drive deep undercooling.

Indexed as

alloysflexible electronicsintermetallicliquid metalslow-temperature soldermetastabilitynanoparticlesnon-equilibrium thermodynamicsundercooling

Identifiers

PMID42621078
PMCPMC13486376

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